Pollen Slinging on 50 Watts?

GoatSoup

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I started sexing some plants in a seedling tub I built that uses a 50 watt LED panel in a 27 gal Ruffneck tub. They were about a month out of seed and ~3-4" tall,in Solo cups. After about a week in 12/12 some of the plants appear to be male. Darn!

Some appeared to be not-male... yet. But it got me thinking that there is no reason to grow huge male plants if you just want a little pollen. No reason to put them in the flowering room and risk all the girls. Just grow your males in the 50 watt tub and let them mature at 8" tall, harvest the balls and then control the pollination of the girls? The Tub setup is about 17"w X 27" l X 30" tall, using a 12 gal tote for a base. Completely self contained and you can put it anywhere the Temps isn't too high/low. I've been hand watering every couple of days and the hood lifts off no problem for full access to the plants.

Is there any reason to grow males any bigger?
 

Ringsixty

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These are my (CS) colloidal silver LSD and Banana kush males.
I like to keep them small. Not like I'm doing a big production of thousands of seed. Just enough seeds for me and a few very, very close friends.
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GoatSoup

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I hadn't thought to breed but I think I'll save some pollen from these Males. They are mostly photo sativa hybrids they might make some good crosses with my Auto's and see if I can breed some autos.

Do CS S1's breed true to Auto/Photo? If so maybe I'll just CS a couple of Auto buds and see what happens ?
 

GoatSoup

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Well the Boys are showing their balls now! I've got at least three that are showing and they are only ~6-8" tall. A couple of girls seem to be expressing a few pistils as well. I guess it true that males mature faster than females?
 

GoatSoup

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Another male showed up today and I dumped it in the recycle bag with the other three.

I have six girls now all showing pistils. The tallest is about six inches and the shortest is about four inches, all under ~50 watts of light. I decided to not cross these as they are already crosses.

I don't have room to grow these out under bigger lights and want to see how well they do in my seedling tub. if I can get 50 grams from them I'll figure I'm well ahead.
 
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